Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Born: November 5, 1850
Died: October 30, 1919 (aged 68)
Bio: Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone".
Known for:
- Poems of Passion (1883)
- Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Maurine and Other Poems (1882)
- Poems of pleasure.. (1888)
- Poems of Power (1901)
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